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| author | Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> | 2024-09-16 09:53:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> | 2024-09-19 15:58:01 +0100 |
| commit | 7866b0f7217c3318f22e807aa427c0c487fc0e68 (patch) | |
| tree | caa17737c0e5e175b0e4d5ba2f8175e5de1b9dca /docs/about | |
| parent | cf2a78cbbb463d5716da9805c8fc5758937924d8 (diff) | |
deprecation: don't enable TCG plugins by default with TCI
The softmmu memory instrumentation test sees so many more accesses
than a normal translated host and its really not worth fixing up. Lets
deprecate this odd configuration and save on the CI cycles.
Reviewed-by: Pierrick Bouvier <pierrick.bouvier@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240916085400.1046925-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/about')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 809b2b9b81..c0aa52def5 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -196,6 +196,14 @@ benefits from having plenty of host memory it seems reasonable to encourage users to use 64 bit builds of QEMU for analysis work whatever targets they are instrumenting. +TCG Plugin support not enabled by default with TCI (since 9.2) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +While the TCG interpreter can interpret the TCG ops used by plugins it +is going to be so much slower it wouldn't make sense for any serious +instrumentation. Due to implementation differences there will also be +anomalies in things like memory instrumentation. + System emulator CPUs -------------------- |